Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Bushmeat disease

Thousands of pounds of primate parts, rodents and other dry, smoked or raw animals -- so-called bushmeat -- are smuggled into the United States as food every year, frequently hidden inside cases of similarly stinky but legal fish.

(Huffington Post)

African wild creatures defined as bushmeat have often created disease emergence. Usually, its a retrovirus involved, having produced at least three diseases originating in primates.

(Earthtimes)

The international trade of endangered bushmeat is illegal, but until this study when I visited him on a field trip to Cameroon this summer: "On infectious disease, we're where cardiology was in the 1950s," he says.

(Time)

According to the CDC, 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases originate from contact with wildlife.

(Medical Daily)

The study led by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clearly demonstrates In addition to animals, illegally imported bushmeat was monitored in the study.

(United Press International)

Chickens suffer terribly from disease in rainforest areas increase in demand for meat and because people had wages from the mines, small bars that sold bushmeat were opening.